NMS is a breathtaking, beautiful, gorgeous game with so many little details and really a product of lots and lots and lots of hard work, and even more love.
But I just can't seem to find the drive to constantly pick it back up. It's just a little too repetitive for me right now.
The fact that it was overhyped or overpromised doesn't really affect me—I think it's something people need to learn to let slide every once in a while. It's easy for developers to get excited over what they're working on, and it's even easier to consistently underestimate the amount of time it's going to take to ship something. It's human nature, and I'm positive that anybody would pull off something similar if they were working for Hello Games and had the same amount of passion for something they wanted to make and release to the world.
But right now, it's just falling ever so short of keeping me going. Which is sad, because I want to keep playing it. I want to see more of it, listen to more of the amazing soundtrack, and live the dream that they were trying to create in a game. It just fell short of a few things that would have really struck a chord with me.